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Graph Memory Transformer replaces FFNs with learned memory graphs for interpretability

Researchers have developed a Graph Memory Transformer (GMT) that replaces the standard Feed-Forward Network (FFN) sublayer in decoder-only language models with an explicit learned memory graph. This new architecture, GMT v7, utilizes 128 centroids and a directed transition matrix within each of its 16 transformer blocks. While the 82.2M parameter GMT model shows comparable zero-shot benchmark performance to a larger GPT-style baseline, it trails in validation loss and perplexity, suggesting potential for future optimization and scaling. AI

IMPACT Explores an alternative to dense FFNs, potentially offering more interpretable and efficient transformer architectures.

RANK_REASON Academic paper introducing a novel transformer architecture variant.

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Graph Memory Transformer replaces FFNs with learned memory graphs for interpretability

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  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Nicola Zanarini, Niccol\`o Ferrari ·

    Graph Memory Transformer (GMT)

    arXiv:2604.23862v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We investigate whether the Feed-Forward Network (FFN) sublayer in a decoder-only transformer can be replaced by an explicit learned memory graph while preserving the surrounding autoregressive architecture. The proposed Graph Memo…

  2. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Niccolò Ferrari ·

    Graph Memory Transformer (GMT)

    We investigate whether the Feed-Forward Network (FFN) sublayer in a decoder-only transformer can be replaced by an explicit learned memory graph while preserving the surrounding autoregressive architecture. The proposed Graph Memory Transformer (GMT) keeps causal self-attention i…